BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / Happy Birthday Sherlock Holmes - 6th Jan 1854

**Posted by kazza474** January 5, 2013 2:27 pm

159 years old!!!

I baked you a small cake, seeing as you're in hiding and all.

**Posted by SusiGo** January 5, 2013 5:13 pm

Congrats, Sherlock, some people never get old.

**Posted by Harriet** January 5, 2013 5:25 pm

even if BBC Sherlock acts rather like 15,9 often

**Posted by tobeornot221b** January 5, 2013 5:30 pm

Harriet wrote:
even if BBC Sherlock acts rather like 15,9 often

Like a consulting pubescent toddler?

**Posted by holmes23** January 5, 2013 5:55 pm

Long live Sherlock Holmes........I know you'll be here in new incarnations to enthrall many generations to come.........You are simply immortal

**Posted by Davina** January 6, 2013 11:32 am

Happy birthday Sherlock Holmes.

**Posted by Caroll** January 6, 2013 2:00 pm

Happy birthday, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes! The world's most (and only) beloved consulting detective!

**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** January 6, 2013 11:01 pm

6th January is Sherlock's official birthday so....Happy Birthday to the great detective:

(Found this on Tumblr. I like it!)

**Posted by Mattlocked** January 6, 2013 11:05 pm

Boss, you are late to your own birthday.

http://sherlock.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=2494

**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** January 6, 2013 11:17 pm

Ha. I thought it was strange that no one had made a topic yet. I'll just merge this one to the other one.

**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** January 6, 2013 11:19 pm

**Posted by Russell** January 7, 2013 12:17 am

Aww...... 159 and still looking good!! Maybe a little catankerous with age, but good! ;D. So neat.... thanks for making a post about... probably wouldn't have recalled it otherwise!

*passes out cupcakes*

**Posted by KeepersPrice** January 7, 2013 12:42 am

Today is also the birthday of one of my good friends. Is there a reason in canon for January 6th as Sherlock's birthday? (Sorry if I missed this on another thread). I'd like to tell her about it when I call her later tonight.

**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** January 7, 2013 10:45 am

Well...it's not actually in the canon, so I'm pretty sure someone just made it up. One of the chroniclers like Baring-Gould or someone...

**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** January 7, 2013 10:48 am

OK...this is off Wiki:

An estimate of Holmes's age in the story "His Last Bow" places his birth in 1854; the story is set in August 1914 and he is described as being 60 years of age. Leslie Klinger cites the date as 6 January.

And then later on in the same article:

The fifty-six short stories and four novels written by Conan Doyle are termed the "canon" by Sherlock Holmes fans. Early scholars of the canon included Ronald Knox[41] in Britain and Christopher Morley in New York,[42] the latter having founded the Baker Street Irregulars, the first society devoted exclusively to the canon of Holmes, in 1934.[43]
According to Morley, Holmes's birthday was January 6, 1854.[44][45]
Author Laurie R. King has speculated about Holmes's birth date, based on two of Conan Doyle's stories: A Study in Scarlet and "The Gloria Scott" Adventure. Certain details in "The Gloria Scott" Adventure indicate Holmes finished his second and final year at university in either 1880 or 1885. Watson's own account of his wounding in the Second Afghan War and subsequent return to England in A Study in Scarlet place his moving in with Holmes in either early 1881 or 1882. Together, these suggest Holmes left university in 1880; if he began university at the age of 17, his birth year would likely be 1861.[46]

**Posted by kazza474** January 7, 2013 10:54 am

Yes, Christopher Morley was responsible for that.

Here's an interesting article from a few years ago:

The Curious Case of a Birthday for Sherlock